A little history of genealogy.com

Over 10 years ago there were two major unrelated subscription websites containing genealogical data, ancestry.com and genealogy.com, and the latter withered for one specific reason - a really crummy search engine.Ancestry allowed soundex and wildcards in their searches and genealogy did not.Eventually ancestry.com purchased genealogy.com and has allowed further withering to occur.For example, genealogy.com has not allowed new subscriptions for over two years now and the only remaining vestige that works (somewhat) is the message boards.Just try and subscribe to something and as soon as you put something into your shopping cart you get a forbidden message.My belief is that ancestry is eventually going to allow the genealogy.com message board to wither as well.Again, the ancestry.com message board is so superior to that of genealogy.com that I see little reason to maintain the latter.For example, the ancestry.com message boards (1) allows one to attach jpeg images instead of having to provide transcriptions, (2) allows postings to be edited to correct errors, (3) allows postings to be deleted, (4) a working notification to users when a posting has been answered.I predict that the message boards at genealogy.com will cease to exist by 2015. -Larry